He is a bit Sherlockian, but it is a confident, plausible and thought-through performance.
This is an impressively thought-through performance that retains the power to surprise in a play that mostly doesn't.
Mr. Hicks skillfully hits all his marks in this hugely challenging Shakespeare role, but you feel he is delivering a carefully thought-through performance rather than bringing us deeply inside the character's despair and confusion.
And to come upon a fully thought-through performance like that of Sophia Martin, a young Australian actress, in Daniel MacIvor's monologue "See Bob Run" in an 11 p.m. show in a fourth-floor-walkup space with just a half-dozen others in the audience, is truly to be touched by motivation of another sort.
But variation for variation, the performance seemed carefully thought through and deeply felt.
The frail but firm tread, the tightly coiled hands, the occasional flicker of disorienting fear or recollected horror that flashes suddenly in her eyes: every detail of the performance is meticulously thought through without being remotely mannered.
Her performance is keenly thought through, from locution to body language; the mimicry of, say, a 15-year-old girl, is thorough, maybe perfect, which is not entirely a compliment.
But then, every detail of the performance had been meticulously thought through, and the results were exceptional.
Has this been thought through?
They thought through all this.
"We're disappointed not to win, we're disappointed we're not definitely through but I thought the performance was good again.
